| slovo | definícia |
catatonia
(encz) | catatonia,katatonie Josef Kosek |
catatonia
(gcide) | catatonia \cat`a*ton"ia\ n. [Gr. katatonos, stretching down,
depressed, fr. kata` down + to`nos stretching, straining,
tone (sound). --Stedman.] (Psychiatry)
an abnormal behavioral syndrome characterized by stupor,
negativism, and muscular rigidity, sometimes alternating with
purposeless excitement, and seen most frequently in
schizophrenia; called also catatonic schizophrenia.
[PJC] |
catatonia
(wn) | catatonia
n 1: extreme tonus; muscular rigidity; a common symptom in
catatonic schizophrenia
2: a form of schizophrenia characterized by a tendency to remain
in a fixed stuporous state for long periods; the catatonia
may give way to short periods of extreme excitement [syn:
catatonic schizophrenia, catatonic type schizophrenia,
catatonia] |
| |